Episode 45: WILLIAM BURROUGHS An Audio Portrait Part One
Today we bring you a tale rife with murder and mayhem, but also something more. We present to you a portrait of an artist and writer, a literary provocateur and countercultural icon whose life and work defied all conventional boundaries: William S. Burroughs. The writing of this elder statesman of the beat generation would challenge societal conventions and shatter censorship laws with its vivid portrayal of taboo subjects such as drug addiction, violence and deviant sex, using a bizarre experimental style that defied narrative structure and explored the darker recesses of the human psyche…
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